DECLASSIFIED PART Authority E013526 7 Chief Records Deciass Div WHS Date JAN '3 if 2014 Kissinger a Showed great concern lest we plan to spring a completed package on the NSC withouticareful HK review and participation We reassured him We will review our work with him about Oct 1 We aim for meeting in December b Concentrated his entire interest on employment policy scenarios options available to President etc Put aside with virtually no comment issues of declaratory policy or acquisition policy or what we communicate to our allies I gather he feels all those questions are subsequent and subordinate to working out proper employment policy c Felt President after inauguration should spend about two days in thorough review and consideration of nuclear employment options avail able to him in various plausible scenarios and of their consequences so that he understands these things in his bones Felt the President's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs should be even more - thoroughly and continuously familiar with these options and scenarios Felt that at each decision point in the scenario they had to understand what the next decision point would be M55 05D e Said the President's strategy has been in the Mid-East crisis in Vietnam etc to push so many chips into the pot that the other side will think we may be crazy and might really go much further f Said he agreed that our strategy must be to prevent escalation He agreed that theatre and strategic weapons must be treated together in a common policy He agreed with all the objectives and principles John Foster recited But he said he could not get ahold of it until we showed him what it meant concretely and how it was to be done as DateJI 059 RS a C'hiof n'ssi rcarion Div - 71 1 h Asked how much we could get done by Octo oer lst John Foster said 1 Analysis of the recovery problem 2 Analysis of the practicality of the targeting called for 3 Some scenarios and options analysis Of ce of the Secretmy of Defense Chief RDD ESD WHS Date 3 5 32% 5 '7 Authority EO 13526 Declasmfy Deny in Full - Declassify 1'11 Part Reason MDR 24 sz W3 em Ae wri y 3 352% 55am Regards f9 Siamese may 31153-53 Basie AN 3 1 2014 I I 1 was 11-1 Q                     National Security Archive    Suite 701  Gelman Library  The George Washington University    2130 H Street  NW  Washington  D C  20037    Phone  202 994‐7000  Fax  202 994‐7005  nsarchiv@gwu edu